UFO enthusiasts pouring over International Space Station footage seemingly have found a “massive red sphere” shooting a “laser beam.”

The video footage was captured on Dec. 5. As one blog notes, “It is not clear whether the object (Man-made or extraterrestrial) shoots the beam towards an object in space or Earth.”

The footage was captured at around 9:20 a.m. UK time, as seen below:

One user speculated on Youtube that it was a “ground-based laser satellite shot.”

It’s not the first time that people have claimed to have spotted alleged UFOs on ISS footage.

A few days ago, a grey smudge was filmed via the ISS camera over the earth.

According to the blog UFO Sightings Daily, a YouTube uploader found “an object that looks big, but I feel its much closer than we think. It has match speed with the space station as to follow it perfectly.”

A gray “UFO” (circled in red) was spotted on ISS footage a few weeks ago. (NASA)

That video footage was captured by the space station last month.The size and shape of the grayish-white object could not be made out.

And in October, a mystery object appeared in ISS footage during an astronaut spacewalk.

As The Mirror notes, “For around five seconds, a mystery craft – which is presumably hovering or flying in – is also visible in the background, in the pitch black. It appears in the camera frame between the space station and Earth – an area filled with just blackness only a few seconds eariler.”

At he time, flight engineers Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency were on the spacewalk

(4Jan)An unsettling report prepared by the Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) that is circulating in the Kremlin today appears to show that many scientists are in fear of the potential effects to our solar system of what they term is an “asteroid army” of at least 83 giant space objects due to hurtle past Earth and Mars over the next three months.

According to this report, these giant asteroids appear to have an “intelligent trajectory” not unlike a military formation and is comprised of three waves with 43 of them flying close to Earth in January, 25 in February, and 15 in March.

Raising the concerns of these scientists about these giant asteroids, this report continues, was their appearing to slightly alter their orbits this past week in a manner similar to that of the long-period Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) which has brightened to such an extent it is now visible to the naked-eye as it approaches its rendezvous with the celestial equator from the south on 9 January.

Of the immediate “effect/effects” of Comet Lovejoy and these giant asteroids altering their course this past week, ADF experts in this report say, was the sudden opening on the Sun’s south pole of a massive coronal hole, while at the exact same time the equally massive sunspot AR2253 erupted and has a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares…and all occurring in a Solar Cycle that has had the highest daily sunspot numbers of any year since 2002.

Where Western scientists are keeping their citizens attention focused on the potentiality of any of these giant asteroids actually striking our Earth, this report further states, the true danger that exists for our planet is a full-scale electromagnetic pulse (EMP) such as occurred on 19 October on Mars due to the passing of passing of Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) when a still as yet unexplained 228 million kilometer (142 million mile) “plasma/electrical discharge” between the Sun and Mars occurred and which was captured on video.

Equally as grave of a threat, this report continues, are the effects Comet Lovejoy and this “asteroid army” could have on the potentially catastrophic North American Magnetic Anomaly (first reported on 13 June of last year) and which within 48 hours of their “orbit alteration” began to show serious signs of stress including yesterdays 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Idaho and the 4.2 and 3.0 magnitude earthquakes in Southern California.

Interesting to note in this report too is it stating that President Obama’s 17 December lifting restrictions/sanctions of Cuba was directly related to the nearly 5,000 military troops under the command of the Emergency Situations Ministry (EMERCOM) that were rushed to that Caribbean island nation this past July after Alaska had been hit with a rare 6.0 magnitude supersonic earthquake, thus making them available to be deployed upon American soil when/if a catastrophe strikes.

Most mysterious in this report, however, are the exact mechanisms being relied upon by ADF scientists in coming to the conclusions they have, but seemingly allude to the “artifact” rushed to the International Space Station this past October in what was described as the most historic rocket launches in Russian-US history.

Important to note, though not contained in this report, are that Russian scientists, unlike their Western counterparts, adhere to the findings and principles of what is called the Electric Universe Theory, which basically postulates that electricity plays a more important role in the Universe, than is generally accepted.

Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to directly orbit the Sun.It is estimated to be 2,326 ± 12 kilometres in diameter,and 27% more massive than Pluto, or about 0.27% of the Earth's mass.

Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) and a member of a high-eccentricity population known as the scattered disc. It has one known moon, Dysnomia. As of 2014, its distance from the Sun is 96.4 astronomical units (1.442×1010 km), roughly three times that of Pluto. With the exception of some comets, Eris and Dysnomia are currently the most distant known natural objects in the Solar System.

Because Eris appeared to be larger than Pluto, its discoverers and NASA initially described it as the Solar System's tenth planet. This, along with the prospect of other similarly sized objects being discovered in the future, motivated the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term planet for the first time. Under the IAU definition approved on August 24, 2006, Eris is a "dwarf planet", along with objects such as Pluto, Ceres, Haumea and Makemake, thereby reducing the number of known planets in the Solar System to eight, the same number as before Pluto's discovery in 1930. However, observations of a stellar occultation by Eris in 2010 showed that its diameter was only 2,326 ± 12 kilometres, not significantly different from the size of Pluto. Given the uncertainties in their size estimates, there is a reasonable chance that Eris is actually smaller than Pluto. However, Pluto's atmosphere makes determining its diameter difficult, and until the New Horizons probe arrives at Pluto on 14 July 2015 the diameter is expected to remain unknown. Because of that, many scientists expect the question of the relative sizes of Eris and Pluto to remain unanswered until then.

Emergency evacuation on the International Space Station: Nasa believe toxic leak of ammonia or faulty sensor may be responsible for alert

'Hazardous substances' may have been discharged into the station from an air conditioning unit according to the Russian Space Agency Crew in US section were forced to take refuge in Russian part of the ISS US segment has been isolated and is being assessed by mission control Crew had to don masks as they moved from the US to Russian segment

However Nasa stresses it is not confirmed that it is an ammonia leak They say that it is likely just a faulty sensor or an anomalous reading

For now, though, they say the crew is safe and there is no need to immediately depart the ISS.

In the event that an evacuation were needed, the crew would be required to get into the two Soyuz spacecraft currently docked to the ISS and return to Earth.

still image from a video with a suspected UFO hovering over London Eye during the New Year celebrations(Everything/YouTube)

UFO sightings have been reported from various parts of the world during New Year celebrations and in London, an eagle eye-shaped flying object was spotted hovering over the London Eye during the fireworks display.

A weird green light was distinctly spotted as fireworks lit the night sky. It appeared to be circular in shape – similar to that of the Huston UFO – and many suspect it was not a Chinese lantern.

The mysterious object was flying in an unusual circular motion, behind the London Eye, and it faded as it moved in the opposite direction of the River Thames, The Metro reported.

Many of those who saw the footage of the alien light on YouTube said that it could have been a UFO, while others believed it to be a drone.

“What strikes me is that whether the UFO is a camera drone or not it catches your attention despite all the fireworks blasting off all around it,” UFO expert Nigel Watson told the Metro.This, however, is not the only UFO spotted on the New Year. Nasa’s video feed from the International Space Station has captured some unusual activities as a strange object was spotted flying near the ISS.

This is an artist's conception of Scholz's star and its brown dwarf companion (foreground) during its flyby of the solar system 70,000 years ago. The Sun (left, background) would have appeared as a brilliant star.http://phys.org/news/2015-02-years.html#jCp

A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered dim star is likely to have passed through the solar system's distant cloud of comets, the Oort Cloud. No other star is known to have ever approached our solar system this close - five times closer than the current closest star, Proxima Centauri.

...researchers analyzed the velocity and trajectory of a low-mass star system nicknamed "Scholz's star."

In fact, the astronomers explain in the paper that they are 98% certain that it went through what is known as the "outer Oort Cloud" - a region at the edge of the solar system filled with trillions of comets a mile or more across that are thought to give rise to long-term comets orbiting the Sun after their orbits are perturbed.

Currently, Scholz's star is a small, dim red dwarf in the constellation of Monoceros, about 20 light years away. However, at the closest point in its flyby of the solar system, Scholz's star would have been a 10th magnitude star - about 50 times fainter than can normally be seen with the naked eye at night. It is magnetically active, however, which can cause stars to "flare" and briefly become thousands of times brighter. So it is possible that Scholz's star may have been visible to the naked eye by our ancestors 70,000 years ago for minutes or hours at a time during rare flaring events.

The star is part of a binary star system: a low-mass red dwarf star (with mass about 8% that of the Sun) and a "brown dwarf" companion (with mass about 6% that of the Sun). Brown dwarfs are considered "failed stars;" their masses are too low to fuse hydrogen in their cores like a "star," but they are still much more massive than gas giant planets like Jupiter.

The USNO-B Catalog is the most recent catalog produced from the USNO Precision Measuring Machine project. The catalog is over 80 GBytes in size, and thus is too large to be distributed whole over the network to users. Users may obtain data from this catalog, as well as sky charts, using the tools provided through the Interactive Catalog and Image Search. ,,,

The Precision Measuring Machine (PMM) in its clean room at the USNO Flagstaff Station. Built by Anorad, Inc. of New York, the base of this machine is a single block of granite weighing roughly 10 tons. It rests on a concrete pier which is isolated from the floor of the room to prevent vibration of the measuring machine. Twin CCD (charge coupled device) cameras are set up to "fly'' a constant distance above the photographic plates, stopping every few seconds to take digital "snapshots'' of a small area of the photographs. The plates rest on a horizontal "plate stage'' supported by four air bearings which float on a thin cushion of air above the granite base.http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astrometry/optical-IR-prod/usno-b1.0

Is Scholz's star bound to the Sun? i.e. part of our solar system?No, we're entirely certain Scholz's star is NOT on a bound orbit with our Sun - it is NOT part of our solar system. It is not in orbit around the Sun - indeed it appears to have traversed *20 light years* in about 70,000 years since its "flyby" of the solar system.

Scientists have discovered the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black 'hole' yet known at that time. The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the University of Arizona announce their findings in the scientific journal Nature on Feb. 26. The discovery of this quasar, named SDSS J0100+2802, marks an important step in understanding how quasars, the most powerful objects in the universe, have evolved from the earliest epoch, only 900 million years after the Big Bang, which is thought to have happened 13.7 billion years ago. The quasar, with its central black hole mass of 12 billion solar masses and the luminosity of 420 trillion suns, is at a distance of 12.8 billion light-years from Earth. The discovery of this ultraluminous quasar also presents a major puzzle,,,

(19Enero)Schoolchildren may need a new mnemonic to remember the sequence of planets as astronomers now believe there may be at least two ‘new’ planets in our solar system.

The two planets – which may both be bigger than earth – could be orbiting in the furthest reaches of the solar system out past Pluto, which was demoted from the status of planet to a dwarf planet in 2006.

The discovery of possible new additions to our existing eight planets, if confirmed, has been described by one of the scientists involved as “truly revolutionary for astronomy”.

The research is being carried out by from scientists at the University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge. They have been tracking large asteroids known as “extreme trans-Neptunion objects” (etnos) which orbit the sun at least six billion kilometres away.

The scientists have found the objects orbit the Sun in a manner consistent with them being subject to the gravitational pull of a planet at least as large as Earth.

Neptune was discovered in a similar fashion when astronomers accurately calculated its existence from irregularities in the orbit of its neighbouring planet Uranus.

Spanish lead scientist Professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), explained: “This excess of objects with unexpected orbital parameters makes us believe that some invisible forces are altering the distribution of the orbital elements of the etnos, and we consider that the most probable explanation is that other unknown planets exist beyond.”

Professor Marcos concluded that there are at least two planets “and probably more within the confines of our solar system”.

Though more data was needed, the possibilities were “truly revolutionary”, he added.

The new research, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, is based on analysis of an effect called the “Kozai mechanism”, by which a large body disturbs the orbit of a smaller and more distant object.

The scientists wrote: “In this scenario, a population of stable asteroids may be shepherded by a distant, undiscovered planet larger than the Earth”.

The “super Earths” as they have been described are orbiting at 250AU from the sun, a distance of almost 40 billion kilometres. At such distances, the planets would reflect so little light from the sun that they would be invisible even to the most sensitive telescope.

Claims of the existence of other moons of Earth—that is, of one or more natural satellites other than the Moon that orbit Earth—have existed for some time. Several candidates have been proposed, but none has been confirmed. The 19th and 20th centuries have seen genuine scientific searches for more moons, but the possibility has also been the subject of a number of dubious non-scientific speculations as well as a number of likely hoaxes.

Although the Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, there are a number of near-Earth objects (NEOs) with orbits that are in resonance with Earth. These have been called, inaccurately but provocatively, "second", "third" or "other" moons of Earth. NEOs include quasi-satellites that orbit the Sun in resonance with Earth, which appear to orbit a point other than Earth itself, such as the orbital path of the NEO asteroid 3753 Cruithne. Earth trojans, such as 2010 TK7, are NEOs that orbit the Sun (not the Earth) on the same orbital path as Earth, appear to lead or follow Earth along the same orbital path..

Other small natural objects in orbit around the Sun could theoretically fall temporarily into orbit around Earth. This would make them natural satellites of Earth, but only temporarily. To date, the only confirmed example has been 2006 RH120 in Earth orbit during 2006 and 2007, though further instances are already predicted.

2006 RH120 is a tiny near-Earth asteroid with a diameter of about 2–3 meters that ordinarily orbits the Sun but makes close approaches to the Earth–Moon system every twenty years or so, when it can temporarily enter Earth orbit through temporary satellite capture (TSC). Most recently it was in Earth orbit from September 2006 to June 2007.

3753 Cruithne is an aten asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth, making it a co-orbital object. It is a minor planet in solar orbit that, relative to Earth, orbits in a bean-shaped orbit that ultimately effectively describes a horseshoe, and which can transition into a quasi-satellite orbit. It has been incorrectly called "Earth's second moon".Cruithne does not orbit Earth and at times it is on the other side of the Sun. Its orbit takes it inside the orbit of Mercury and outside the orbit of Mars. Cruithne orbits the Sun in about 1 year but it takes 770 years for the series to complete a horseshoe-shaped movement around the Earth.

Cruithne is approximately 5 km in diameter, and its closest approach to Earth is 12,000,000 km , approximately thirty times the separation between Earth and the Moon. From 1994 through 2015, Cruithne makes its annual closest approach to Earth every November,,,

Scientists in Australia have discovered what they say is the largest asteroid impact area ever found.

The 400-kilometre (250-mile) wide area is buried deep in the earth's crust and consists of two separate impact scars.

The team behind the discovery, from the Australian National University (ANU), said the asteroid broke into two before it hit, with each fragment more than 10km across.

The impact is thought to have occurred at least 300 million years ago.

The surface crater has long since disappeared from central Australia's Warburton Basin but geophysical modelling below the surface found evidence of two massive impacts, said Dr Andrew Glikson, who led the ANU team.

"It would have been curtains for many life species on the planet at the time," said Dr Glikson.

But the team, which published its findings in the geology journal Tectonophysics, has not been able to connect the impact to any known extinction.

"It's a mystery - we can't find an extinction event that matches these collisions," said Dr Glikson. "I have a suspicion the impact could be older than 300 million years."

The rocks around the impact zone are roughly 300 to 600 million years old, but a layer of ash that would have been thrown up by the impact has not been detected as sediment in rock layers from the same period.

The large meteorite believed to have killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago corresponds to a layer of sediment in rocks around the world.

"Large impacts like these may have had a far more significant role in the Earth's evolution than previously thought," Dr Glikson said.

The apparent impact zone in the Warburton Basin was discovered by accident while scientists were drilling 2km under the Earth's surface for a geothermal research project.